The Giver by Lois Lowry - Essay Example

Jerry Ciacho April 20, The Giver by Lois Lowry "For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behindhim, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps, it was only an echo." These are the final words of The Giver. The melody that greets Jonas to the Christmas-celebrating community is the very first he has heard in his entire life. It not only marks his arrival, where he can a full life as he wishes to, but also his awareness to a new form of insight, one that up to that moment has been inaccessible to him.

This new gift of music is a representation of hope and rebirth. Jonas will finally be able to experience the actual world and not purely memories. The music also greets him to a different society.The source of the singing Jonas hears is as vague as the novel’s end itself. It could possibly be the music that the town he used to live in learns to create. The music might perhaps simply be an echo of the music in the town, reminding Jonas that his community maybe learning the joy of music the same time he is.

The music he hears could also be only figments of his imagination, encroaching as he is dying in the cold.I chose this quote because it shows that Jonas has finally accomplished his ultimate goal for the community, to be able to let them experience affection and solitude, both free will and choice, finally wakening his whole community to the promises of life. The end of the novel is unquestionably hopeful and that is why I like this quote. The whole novel, all throughout, was generally depicting struggle and the writhe to change the way his community was living.

This quote finally signified the value and meaning of what he went through and sacrificed for them.Works CitedLowry, Lois. The Giver. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993. Print.